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The RSS-linked Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) organised a protest against the Walmart-Flipkart deal in New Delhi - Photogallery

The RSS-linked Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) organised a protest against the Walmart-Flipkart deal in New Delhi. According to the deal, global retail giant Walmart will buy 77% stake in the country’s largest e-tailer Flipkart. Dozens of SJM members, who were holding banners and chanting slogans against the Walmart, took to streets. Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convenor of the economic wing of RSS, said that the deal would kill Indian jobs and hamper ‘Made in India’ initiative. He further added that Walmart would sell Chinese goods in the Indian market, which would not only ruin the entrepreneurship but farmers. Mahajan also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express his anguish over the deal. “SJM, RSS and BJP have a consensus that FDI in multibrand retail will not only kill entrepreneurship, it is antifarmer and will kill job creation opportunities in the market. Hence, it is rightly kept out. But strangely, Walmart is using the e-commerce route to circumvent the rules to attack Indian market. It is to be noted that nowhere in the world, Walmart has a market place model,” he wrote. (PTI)

The RSS-linked Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) organised a protest against the Walmart-Flipkart deal in New Delhi. According to the deal, global retail giant Walmart will buy 77% stake in the country’s largest e-tailer Flipkart. Dozens of SJM members, who were holding banners and chanting slogans against the Walmart, took to streets. Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convenor of the economic wing of RSS, said that the deal would kill Indian jobs and hamper ‘Made in India’ initiative. He further added that Walmart would sell Chinese goods in the Indian market, which would not only ruin the entrepreneurship but farmers. Mahajan also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express his anguish over the deal. “SJM, RSS and BJP have a consensus that FDI in multibrand retail will not only kill entrepreneurship, it is antifarmer and will kill job creation opportunities in the market. Hence, it is rightly kept out. But strangely, Walmart is using the e-commerce route to circumvent the rules to attack Indian market. It is to be noted that nowhere in the world, Walmart has a market place model,” he wrote. (PTI)